It's no secret that Vice President Joe Biden has made more than a few gaffes during his political career.

His latest: a hard-to-prove comment about a brush with the 2006 school shooting at Nickel Mines.

Speaking last week to the U.S. Conference of Mayors in Washington, D.C., Biden made the surprising revelation that he was golfing within earshot of the one-room schoolhouse when a troubled truck driver shot 10 Amish girls, killing five and wounding five.

I find it amazing that politicians all seem to want to be within about 5 degrees of any major event. Hillary was named for Sir Edmond Hillary four years before he climbed Everest. Hillary spiraled down into an airport under fire when there was no fire. Bill Clinton remembered church burnings in Arkansas when none burned. John Kerry remembered cruising down the river in Cambodia when no troops were in Cambodia. Joe Biden was within ear shots of a school shooting while playing golf at a golf course many miles away.

Is Biden the real-life person John Lovitz based his “Compulsive Liar” character on? Seriously - Biden is so far off the plantation (while it is apparently quite normal and acceptable for Democrats to lie - at least Clinton and Obama do it with “style” and make their lies sound plausible) that he cannot even tell a believable lie.

The sad reality is that the Vice President of the United States is a chronic, unrepentant liar. There’s no polite way of saying it. The media pass it off as a “gaffe” or “Joe being Joe”, but it is intentional on Biden’s part and it is insidious. it is also long-standing. Here’s a reminder from the 1988 campaign when the Dukakis campaign torpedoed Biden:

“Democratic presidential candidate Joseph R. Biden Jr., a U.S. senator from Delaware, was driven from the nomination battle after delivering, without attribution, passages from a speech by British Labor party leader Neil Kinnock. A barrage of subsidiary revelations by the press also contributed to Biden’s withdrawal: a serious plagiarism incident involving Biden during his law school years; the senator’s boastful exaggerations of his academic record at a New Hampshire campaign event; and the discovery of other quotations in Biden’s speeches pilfered from past Democratic politicians.

The controversy became two frenzies in one when it was disclosed that the campaign of Massachusetts Gov. Michael S. Dukakis had earlier secretly distributed to several news media outlets an “attack video” juxtaposing the Biden and Kinnock speeches and revealing Biden’s word theft”

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